SOCIAL: Lawyer-Types: Come Use Your Powers For Good

[Amandeep Jawa]

My super smart & savvy friend Jean Fraser is recruiting lawyer-types  
to to help protect voting in various states. You can help!
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Attorneys & Law Students:    VOTERS NEED YOUR HELP!

Please sign up to protect votes at: my.barackobama.com/counselforchange

Please find below information about the Voter Protection program for  
the Barack Obama Presidential campaign.  Through this program, lawyers  
and law students sign-up to protect votes on Election Day or earlier  
in states with early voting.  The campaign would like to have a legal  
team in place to prevent voting irregularities.  Your legal expertise  
makes you indispensable to the voter protection initiative.  In all  
cases, you will be fully trained ahead of time and supported by a  
hotline of experienced election lawyers in-state.

This program is extremely important as we need to ensure that EVERY  
vote counts!  There are many battleground states this year where the  
election may be close.  Remember, in 2000, Vice President Al Gore lost  
Florida by only 537 votes (and 25 electoral votes).  And in 2004,  
Senator John Kerry lost New Mexico by only 5,988 votes.

Here is how you can get involved:

·         Monitor Polls on Election Day!
o   Volunteer to safeguard voting rights of Californians.  The  
campaign has developed an in-state voter protection structure to  
promptly identify and eliminate any barriers to voting, whether cased  
by misinformation, ballot shortages or other issues.

o   Travel to a battleground state, such as Ohio or Nevada.   
Volunteers will be placed at polling sites in critical locations.   
Volunteers should plan to arrive on November 3 for training and plan  
to leave on November 5 or later.  To sign up for Ohio, which has a  
desperate need for a 1000 more lawyers, go to: http://oh.barackobama.com/page/s/ohvolunteerlaw

·         Monitor Polls during Early Voting!  Please consider  
committing to volunteer for at least two days as a poll monitor during  
a state's early voting period.  Poll monitors are especially needed on  
weekdays.  On the sign-up webpage, please indicate in the "Notes"  
section the specific dates you will be available to volunteer.

·         Help us Do Attorney-to-Attorney Recruiting!

o   Please send the sign-up information to your friends and colleagues  
who may be interested. Talk to all the lawyers and law students you  
know about getting involved!

o   We especially need help assisting with our lawyer-to-lawyer phone  
banking effort.  We have had lawyers in CA calling lawyers in swing  
states and asking the swing state lawyers to volunteer on Election Day  
in their home state.  This effort has really been quite successful and  
we are now getting lots of requests for help.   It’s a great way to  
make a contribution to the national effort and it only takes an hour  
or two.  People interested in phone banking should send an email to obamacalawyertolawyerphonebank at gmail.com 
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Training.  In all cases, you will be fully trained and supported by a  
team of experienced election law attorneys.  Two hour training  
sessions will occur in several California cities in coming week or in  
a battleground state.

We look forward to engaging your skills and talents.  You are what  
makes the Voter Protection program possible.  We hope you will join  
the Voter Protection program and encourage your friends and colleagues  
to do the same.  Please sign up to protect votes at:  
my.barackobama.com/counselforchange




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Amandeep Jawa
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937 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110-2320

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